Intel the company, not intel short for intelligence, military or otherwise, in the title above.
Craig Barrett, chairman of the world's largest computer chip maker, had a swipe at the UN and MIT today, for their plan to provide the world's poor with $100 hand-cranked portable computers. Because the world's poor, in places where it is hard to get electricity or laptop batteries, most of whom probably haven't seen a pentium driven PC before, are obviously hanging out for a laptop that can handle Halo 2, or whichever is the PC equivalent in hot games that take lots of power. Yes, people living on less than a dollar or two a day really want to be able to have reprogrammable full functionality computers. Because the open source word processing or spreadsheeting programmes are so 1980s.
I went searching on Technorati for the latest blog buzz on this story, and liked this sentence from engadget -
'But hey, we certainly do get a kick out of a multi-millionaire businessmen yammering on about what the world’s poor really want from a computer while the competition is, um, hanging out with Kofi Annan and garnering UN support.'
Because this computers to the poor idea is so obviously going to be corrupted, either by the UN itself like the Iraq oil for food thing, or handing out computers to terrorists. Oh, that's an unsubstantiated claim is it? We had a talk to our good friend Mr Waterboard, of course the UN is in bed with Al Qaeda... sarcasm people, sarcasm.
Hmm, just had a look at the messageboards under the engadget piece, the supporters of Barrett's comments are saying stuff like 'it's not going to change the politics of the governments', 'someone's got to be making money out of this, it's not all philanthropy', 'it's the UN, obviously something is fishy'. Get OVER yourselves people, try living like the Third World does and then see whether a Commodore 64 with internet capacity, with hand cranked electricity will make a positive difference?
Grrr.
One of these days I will do a personal entry again LOL.
Paul
Craig Barrett, chairman of the world's largest computer chip maker, had a swipe at the UN and MIT today, for their plan to provide the world's poor with $100 hand-cranked portable computers. Because the world's poor, in places where it is hard to get electricity or laptop batteries, most of whom probably haven't seen a pentium driven PC before, are obviously hanging out for a laptop that can handle Halo 2, or whichever is the PC equivalent in hot games that take lots of power. Yes, people living on less than a dollar or two a day really want to be able to have reprogrammable full functionality computers. Because the open source word processing or spreadsheeting programmes are so 1980s.
I went searching on Technorati for the latest blog buzz on this story, and liked this sentence from engadget -
'But hey, we certainly do get a kick out of a multi-millionaire businessmen yammering on about what the world’s poor really want from a computer while the competition is, um, hanging out with Kofi Annan and garnering UN support.'
Because this computers to the poor idea is so obviously going to be corrupted, either by the UN itself like the Iraq oil for food thing, or handing out computers to terrorists. Oh, that's an unsubstantiated claim is it? We had a talk to our good friend Mr Waterboard, of course the UN is in bed with Al Qaeda... sarcasm people, sarcasm.
Hmm, just had a look at the messageboards under the engadget piece, the supporters of Barrett's comments are saying stuff like 'it's not going to change the politics of the governments', 'someone's got to be making money out of this, it's not all philanthropy', 'it's the UN, obviously something is fishy'. Get OVER yourselves people, try living like the Third World does and then see whether a Commodore 64 with internet capacity, with hand cranked electricity will make a positive difference?
Grrr.
One of these days I will do a personal entry again LOL.
Paul
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